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While influencers panic over potentially losing their favorite app, FBI Director Wray warned that users should be concerned that their data is being filtered to the 'Chinese intelligence services.' 'TikTok, for us, represents a national security concern,' Wray said. 'The reason I say that is TikTok's parent company is beholden to the Chinese government.' Wray's stark warning came after Congress passed a potential TikTok ban as part of a wider set of foreign aid legislation, with the platform now forced to divest from its Chinese-based parent company ByteDance within nine months, or face a total ban.

On March 9, John Barnett, 62, was discovered dead in his truck from a single gunshot to the head in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina, seven years after he retired after a 32-year career. He was in town for meetings as part of his case against Boeing, where the firm retaliated against him for broadcasting his doubts regarding the company's quality control. Vicky Stokes and brother Rodney Barnett, both from Barnett, spoke to CBS on Thursday and told the story that the strain from the war against Boeing was difficult on Barnett. When asked if she blamed Boeing for Barnett's death, she replied: "I'd still have my son, my son's would still have their brother, and we wouldn't be here." Barnett's family grew up for three decades, but the family became concerned when he was moved to Boeing's South Carolina plant in 2010 and noticed quality problems and procedures that were not being followed. Boeing retaliated after Barnett revealed his suspicions, and the whistleblower was later embarrassed in work meetings with where he would be 'called out' before leaving the job in 2017. That will wear on anyone after seven or eight years,' the mother said.

"It's still feels like he's running screaming and kicking:" Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun's resignation is well overdue and would take far too long to prevent a spiraling crisis,' a leading business school professor said. Boeing's chief executive said on Monday that after a string of commercial aircraft accidents brought Boeing's manufacturing and safety standards into the limelight, he would not stand down until the year's end. On Tuesday morning, Paul Argenti (right), a professor of corporate communication at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, told CNBC, 'I think it's too little, too late.'

In the aftermath of a safety crisis at the troubled aerospace company, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of the year in a leadership overhaul. In the midst of continuing 737 MAX safety concerns, Calhoun, as the chairman of the board and the head of its commercial airline company are among those who are leaving. Wall Street reacted positively to the announcement, with Boeing's shares up 4 percent in premarket trading as at 8.45 a.m. EST. The company has been plagued by a near-catastrophic crash on January 5 as a fuselage panel on a 737 MAX 9 Alaska Airlines jet burst off mid-flight.

Boeing's chief has chastised Boeing for concentrating on "production" rather than "safety and quality."

According to NBC's Lester Holt, the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, that tech firms and law enforcement should work together to reduce deepfake porn, but did not specify how Microsoft would react. Microsoft and other tech firms, Nadella, owed it to the fact that they had to place all of the guardrails around the device so that there is more safe content being produced.' According to him, there needs to be more agreement on what is acceptable and greater cooperation is required. We can do, especially when you have rule and law enforcement and tech platforms that can work together.' I think we can do more than we think, and we should give ourselves credit for that.'

When asked specifically if the funds could be used for 'humanistic' uses, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says his country will invest $6 billion in unlocked oil revenue funds "wherever we need it." He made the remarks to NBC after the Biden administration announced that it would no longer be used for purposes such as food and medicine. As part of a pact with five Iranians detained in the United States, the funds are being released as part of a deal to free five American citizens in Iran. According to the administration, the transactions will be monitored.

The names and pictures of the officers who shot and killed six people at a private school on Monday have been released by Nashville police. Including three nine-year-olds. Audrey Hale arrived at the Covenant School in her Honda Fit shortly before ten, and was killed by police less than 15 minutes after they had opened fire, killing six people. Officers Rex Engelbart and Michael Collazo were the team's members who fired at Hale, killing her, according to a spokesperson for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department. Collazo is a nine-year veteran of the Nashville police department, while Engelbart has been with the force for four years.

On Monday, Audrey Hale, 28, was shot and killed by police after killing three children and three others in a Nashville school. Hale was transgender, according to police, but no further information has been given. Hale was born female, but a LinkedIn profile assumed to be hers uses he/him pronouns, implying Hale was living as a male.

After six near miss collisions between aircraft and pilots at US airports since the year's start, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a safety warning to airlines and pilots. Following a string of events around the country, the FAA sent an alert on Wednesday that airlines should maintain their vigilance and alert mitigation of safety risks.' 'While the overall figures indicate that there are no rises or occurrences, the FAA's warning that the potential occurrences are concerning.' The official alert comes just days after the FAA held an impromptu safety and security summit in response to increasing fears among airline passengers.

Just days after the Federal Aviation Administration hosted a summit on rising safety issues, a plane almost collided with a helicopter at a Southern California airport. An air traffic controller at Hollywood Burbank Airport noticed a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter on the same runway about 9.50 a.m., according to FAA officials. According to an FAA report, the helicopter had been performing touch-and-goal landings. The pilot ordered the plane to turn around after identifying the problem. No one was injured, and the FAA is investigating the situation at this time. In February, a Mesa Airlines flight was ordered to abort its landing as a SkyWest plane was allowed to take off on the same runway. That was the fourth time of its kind in 2023.

That figure has grown from $3.2 billion last year, and includes funds from Target and Columbia Sportswear, as well as other retailers. Harris is expected to meet with business and government officials in Washington on Monday to launch Central America Forward, which is based on economic growth and labor rights, as well as a drive against corruption, according to an administration official who spoke with reporters. President Biden appointed Harris to lead efforts to reduce migration along the US-Mexico border in March 2021, making her the object of conservative ire as migration figures increased to new highs.

Ruth Woroniecki, 40, revealed in an exclusive interview that she had to hike to safety after surviving a 200-foot fall in the San Gabriel Mountains while out hiking on Christmas Eve.

Joy Reid of MSNBC has sluggishly told Thanksgiving that it is a "simplistic fairy tale" based on a myth that Republicans rely on to cover up America's 'genocide.' As millions of Americans prepare for holiday, the host opened the ReidOut version on Wednesday by attacking the holiday and its traditions. For millions of Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of cherished traditions, but it is in fact based on a sequence of "historical inaccuracies," Reid said. The indigenous people welcomed their colonizers with open arms and ears of corn,' Reid said. A simplistic fairytale interpretation of a 1621 encounter between indigenous tribes and English settlers that has erased the genocide that followed.' 'It's the truth that Republicans want to be barred from our textbooks,' he says.'

Gisele Fetterman has filed a letter demanding that the NBC reporter who interviewed her husband, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, apologize to the disabled community. Fetterman's body and his fitness for office were chastised after a stroke in May. According to the candidate's spouse, the interview will do to the disabled population. Last week, Fetterman's interview with NBC correspondent Dasha Burns aired and included an angle that included closed captioning, which transcribed the interview in real time to help him in comprehending and handling the questions asked.

'The ability of newspapers to have a large effect is de minimis,' President Biden said at an L.A. funder on Thursday, where donors paid up to $10,000 per couple to attempt to help raise House Democrats.' In remarks that yearned for the days when journalists and their bosses in a more centralized framework could determine which news drove the news cycle, Biden also lamented that there were 'no editors.'

Journalists were 'appalling' that journalists detailed the difficulties her husband and Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate candidate faced in an interview due to his continuing effects from his stroke in May, according to John Fetterman's wife. 'Recovering from a stroke in public isn't easy,' the candidate added.' After criticizing her husband's eligibility to serve as a US senator, Gisele Barreto Fetterman posted on Twitter that journalists had a skepticism of people with disabilities running for public office.

In a sit-down interview, Fetterman referred to the effects of his stroke and said he relies on captioning to get more detail on what people say. He said he'd be getting better 'every day,' and that by January, he'd be'much better.' The lieutenant governor had a stroke before the primary in Pennsylvania was held in June and began staging campaign appearances in August.

When doing a sweep of his Mar-a-Lago home, Donald Trump said that FBI agents didn't take off their shoes, and that his Florida home will'never be the same.' The former president announced shortly after the raid on August 8 that agents "rummaged" through his wife Melania's closet, and that they conducted 'a thorough and difficult search' of his 16-year-old son Barron's bedroom, according to him. Trump said the changes were evident from nearly two months before when it was searched by approximately 30 FBI agents.

During a sit-down with '60 Minutes,' President Joe Biden reiterated his attempts to help prevent a national rail strike, pointing out his attempts to promote a railroad partnership.' In an interview clip that came out a day after he outlined the offer in a Rose Garden appearance as well as an appearance with leadership and labor in the Oval Office, he made the remarks. The agreement, which has resulted in 24 percent wage hikes in a five-year cycle, must be ratified by railway unions.

Vice President Kamala Harris said the country's highest court now is a 'activist court,' now that they have reversed Roe vs. Wade. Such draconian terms are unusual for a vice president as the Supreme Court struggles to reverst the historic 1973 abortion decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. When asked how much 'confidence' she has in the Supreme Court on NBC's Meet the Press, she said, 'I believe that this is an activist court.' As an extension of what we have deemed "the fundamental right to which all individuals are entitled, we had an established right for almost half a century that is the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies.' Harris continued, 'This court took the fundamental right away.'

Justice Neil Gorsuch said he and his fellow justices might learn more about the leak that caused national broadcasting waves around the country ahead of the Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. According to the Wall Street Journal, Justice Gorsuch told the 10th Circuit Bench and Bar Conference in Colorado Springs that "the chief justice had appointed an internal committee to oversee the probe." That committee has been busily, and we're eager to hear their findings, which I hope will arrive soon.' The Trump-nominated justice did not say if the report would be released or not. The leak has been condemned by justices in general, including Gorsuch, who said that it was designed to sway their decision in the abortion case.

Myrtle Brown vanished in 1990 in New York, but her destiny was uncertain until her brother Robert Brown tuned into a television show. A chance encounter with a news broadcast of unidentified bodies resolved the more than three decades cold case. Robert thought the recognizable woman on television was his sister and called the cold case team, who later revealed that it wasn't his sister, but he had to investigate Myrtle's case. Eboney Brown, her brother, and her daughter Myrtle Brown all went missing 32 years ago, and they received a call that they had found a match. The Brown family learned that their mother died from a seizure while awaiting in a hospital's emergency room, but they were finally at peace after all the rumors.

On Monday, CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell (right) tweeted that a 'DOJ official' told her that the FBI was 'not in possession' of Donald Trump's three passports, contradicting the former president's assertion that three of his passports were confiscated during the raid at Mar-a-Lago. According to the New York Post, Angry CBS sources reported that the anchor allegedly breached the outlet's strict 'two-source' policy when she tweeted the complaint. One employee said of O'Donnell, whose show is falling further behind ABC's David Muir and NBC's Lester Holt, 'She's desperate.' It doesn't look good.' If you're going to hurt the POTUS and make him a liar, you should not tweet the news.' In a Truth Social post (inset), Trump (left) said his passports were finally recovered on Tuesday after he slammed the seizure and the FBI raid at his Florida home.